Shallow characters, horrible acting and worse accents.

Rating: 2/10 (16 November 2013)

Oh how I waited for this movie. The first trailer had me salivating in anticipation of this huge robot vs alien movie. I missed it at the cinema as I've two young children and I couldn't quite time a visit right with my buddies.
It reached the Sky Store last week so there I was last night, set up and ready for my night of entertainment. As an admirer of Del Toro, I was eagerly anticipating the moving in full confidence that he couldn't produce anything other than gold. I remember being mesmerised the first time I saw Pan's Labyrinth, followed by both Hellboy movies and other movies that he's been associated with including The Orphanage. All I very much enjoyed.
In a nutshell: can someone please explain to me when Del Toro started getting movie training from Michael Bay? This movie left me bitterly disappointed. The acting is woeful, and I mean from the first minute.. Watching the two cocky brothers swagger their way to their Jaeger was about as subtle as getting smashed in the face by a brick with a cliché attached. Predictable, shallow and down right insulting to anyone watching except your brain-dead Transformers fan. It couldn't get worse I thought. It did. The stereotyped Japanese girl with the tragic back story, Idris Elba (in his native accent which it seems some reviewers think is put on) doing his best to keep a straight face and those two 'flamin Austraaaalians'. Do me a favour, one is from Eastenders (UK) and the other one is American. The accents are terrible!! If you need Aussies, hire them. It's insulting to any viewer with an IQ higher than 100 and completely off-putting. Not to mention the dubbing clearly carried out in post-production.
The Jaeger effects are good, as are the Kaiju, however that is the only thing that stopped me from turning off the film. I'd like to give them more of a mention, but I'm still angry about how terrible the rest of the film is. It's a turkey and I feel very glad that I didn't waste time at the cinema on it.
Sorry Guillermo, 2/10